Design Archives

Chicago, poster

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Juror Notes

This is a nicely designed photograph; also groovy looking;which raises the same problem. This is designed as an anti-war poster. . . but it looks like an ad for a rock group inRolling Stone. The crosses, presumably, symbolize death inwar, but they're really quite lovely, seen in that perspective.The message in the lower lefthand corner doesn't intrude inthe slightest. All of these effects may have been createdintentionally. The overall effect is to make the anti-warmovement seem like a rather pleasant diversion, which formany people, of course, it is. —Tom Wolfe

Maybe seven crosses and seven soldiers against aphotomural of crosses without end, in contrast to thesmall type. . . a catalogue of casualty figures, of numbersof torn bodies under neat white crosses.